CV
Experience
- Professor, 2026 - Present
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) - Associate Professor, 2021 - 2026
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) - Research Group Leader, 2019 - 2021
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence - Research Scientist, 2018 - 2019
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence - Assistant Professor, 2017 - 2018
Ozyegin University, Department of Computer Science - Postdoctoral Researcher, 2013 - 2016
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, 2013
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland - MSc in Computer Science, 2008
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkiye
Grants
- Independent Research Fund Denmark (Co-PI w/ Silvia Tolu)
- 849,330 EUR (2026-2030)
- Novo Nordisk Foundation New Exploratory Research and Discovery (NERD) (Single PI)
- 2,226,075 EUR (2026-2032)
- Independent Research Fund Denmark (Single PI)
- 425,032 EUR (2026-2030)
- Independent Research Fund Denmark (Single PI)
- 425,032 EUR (2025-2029)
- Carlsberg Foundation Semper Ardens Accelerate (Single PI)
- 671,908 EUR (2022-2026)
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Start Package (Single PI)
- 600,000 EUR (2021-2026)
Invited talks
- ELLIS PhD and Postdoc Summit, ELLIS Society, 13th July 2021
- Follow Up Session Self-aware AI, German Physical Society, 26th Feb 2021
- Self-aware AI: How can a neural network learn to say „I do not know“?, German Physical Society, 23rd Nov 2021
- Towards self-aware AI (in Turkish), Turkish AI Hub, 6th Aug 2020
- Modern Bayesian Inference for Machine Learning, 43rd Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days, Oct 2019
Academic Service
- Grant Panel Memberships:
- DFF Ad Hoc Committee, AI Thematic Research (2025-26)
- DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee (2024-26)
- Area Chair / SPC:
- NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, AISTATS, ECAI
- Venue Organization:
- EWRL & RLC Europe 2027: General Chair
- D3A 25-26: Poster Chair